detention facility
12月12日は「漢字の日」に制定され（例の漢検によって）、今年一年を表す漢字がまもなく発表されます。しかしながら、山中教授ではないけど北朝鮮のミサイル発射といい、この角田被告の自殺といい、まさに「驚」の一年だったような気がしないでもありません。detention facilityは「拘置所」ですね。（GP）
Key figure in Amagasaki murder case apparently commits suicide
KOBE, Dec. 12, Kyodo
A woman suspected in the deaths and disappearances of several people died Wednesday at a detention facility at the headquarters of the Hyogo prefectural police, the police said.
Miyoko Sumida, 64, apparently committed suicide, police sources said, noting that she was found Wednesday morning with her clothes twisted around her neck in the cell where she was being held.
The bodies of six people known to her have been found so far, and Sumida was indicted for the murder of a 66-year-old woman whose body was found in a concrete-filled drum in a warehouse in Amagasaki, Hyogo Prefecture, in November last year.
